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Vaccinated and tested: Married couple from Italy want to visit daughter in Munich - Corona drama on the Tyrolean border

2021-03-10T04:40:35.192Z


The Italian couple is vaccinated and freshly tested for Corona. Nevertheless, his trip to Munich ends on the Tyrolean border. Log of a bureaucratic roller coaster ride.


The Italian couple is vaccinated and freshly tested for Corona.

Nevertheless, his trip to Munich ends on the Tyrolean border.

Log of a bureaucratic roller coaster ride.

Munich - Maria (name changed by the editorial team) had not seen her parents for six months.

Six long months of waiting, hoping, and worrying.

What are the numbers doing in Germany, in Italy?

When does the corona lockdown end?

Has anyone in the family got infected?

Then, last week, it should finally be that time.

Maria's mother (60) and father (65) - all those involved want to keep their names to themselves - had the second corona vaccination at home in Italy *.

A visit would now be responsible.

If it weren't for this thing with Tyrol.

Italian couple want to visit daughter in Munich: Problems start in Tyrol

Maria (32) has lived in Munich for several years, is married to a Munich resident, the couple has a young daughter.

Before Corona, the young family was regularly with Maria's family in Emilia Romagna or the parents were visiting Bavaria.

Then the virus came.

In autumn 2020 Maria drove to Italy for the last time with her husband and child, then the second wave rolled across Europe.

Visits were out of the question.

In the beginning of spring, a lot has changed for the German-Italian family in terms of pandemic: The parents have both received two doses of the Biontech vaccine, both work in the health service.

All the rules still apply to them irrevocably - as they had to experience painfully on the border with Bavaria *.

Entry to Bavaria: A corona test from Sterzing is not valid - if you come via Tyrol

The Italian couple set off from home in the middle of last week.

They are allowed to visit their families in Germany for 72 hours without quarantine and tests.

This is how it was explained to Maria, who had inquired in advance at the Bavarian Ministry of Health.

There was no mention of Tyrol in the official mail that the editors have received.

In Sterzing, on the Italian-Austrian border, the parents do rapid corona tests.

The Austrians require this for entry.

The tests are negative and are certified with the time.

The Italians drive on without stopping.

Policewoman at the border with Bavaria: "I am not allowed to let you in."

The journey ends abruptly in Kufstein.

At the Tyrolean border over to Bavaria, a German policewoman explains to the Italian couple that they cannot continue.

“I can't let her in,” says the policewoman Maria on the cell phone.

Her parents had phoned her in all their desperation, also to overcome the language barrier.

Everyone involved was nervous.

Tyrol is a mutation area, entry to Germany from there is only permitted in exceptional cases - for example to come to work.

The transit without stopping is obviously not one of these exceptional cases.

Family visits * also not, as a woman from Augsburg discovered.

The vaccination is irrelevant, and neither is the negative test, which is only a few hours old.

A shock for Maria and her parents.

"Nobody said: Don't drive through Tyrol," says Maria looking back.

In addition to the request to the Ministry of Health, she also telephoned various police stations in advance to find out the exact framework conditions for entry.

Nowhere a word about Tyrol.

Border closure due to Corona: Munich woman wants a Bavarian-Tyrolean solution

Also: "Bavaria borders directly on Tyrol," says Maria.

“Why is there no joint solution?” For example, for vaccinated people, through the short official channels, without a long EU debate about a digital vaccination pass.

Or for those who tested negatively.

Or at least for travelers who demonstrably did not leave the car after the test in Sterzing.

After the scandal surrounding the Tyrolean governor Günter Platter (ÖVP), who was banned from transit *, it does not look like an agreement.

Merkur.de *

would have liked to have received

answers to these questions from the Bavarian Ministry of Health.

Unfortunately, one request went unanswered.

There was also no response to the question of why Maria was not informed about the Tyrolean special rules when she asked about the entry into the country.

After returning from Munich to Italy: curfew at home due to increasing corona numbers

Incidentally, after more than ten hours, the Italian couple reached their daughter in Munich.

That was only possible because a German police officer closed both eyes very tightly and gave the decisive hint: “Drive through Salzburg.

And don't say that you come from Tyrol. ”It was already 9 pm, outside freezing temperatures.

“My parents would have had to spend the night in the car and drive back to Italy in the morning.” They shouldn't have taken up hotels either.

Her parents drove home from Munich after 72 hours, as prescribed.

The return trip was just stressful.

They had to be through South Tyrol by 9 p.m., from which time there was a curfew.

At home in Emilia Romagna, Maria's parents are no longer allowed to leave the house.

In Italy, a strict lockdown is again in force in many regions due to the increasing numbers.

When can Maria see her parents again?

“I have no idea,” she says sadly.

You and your little daughter will probably have to live for a long time to come from the short visit that cost you so much nerves.

* Merkur.de / bayern is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

List of rubric lists: © Peter Kneffel / dpa

Source: merkur

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